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Originally Posted by ffmihai
which human right situations? i tought turkey is a free country!  |
oh yeah amazing free country lol
Turkey: Officials Try to Shut Down Rights Group
(New York, September 27, 2005)?The threat by Turkish officials to close down an organization defending lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's rights violates basic freedoms of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said today.
Selahattin Ekremoglu, deputy governor of the Turkish capital Ankara, on September 15 wrote a letter to the gay and lesbian group Kaos GL that said a court procedure had been opened to dissolve the organization. He claimed that the name and regulations of the group violated a provision in the Turkish Civil Code that forbids "establishing any organization that is against the laws and principles of morality."
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/27/turkey11784.htm